The Reykjavik Maritime Museum

The Reykjavík Maritime Museum is young but rapidly growing. Now the museum’s indoor exhibition space has expanded by 700 m². There are exhibitions in five halls, including one on the evolution of Icelanders’ fishing and coastal culture through the centuries.

The Coast Guard vessel Ódinn is part of the museum. The ship lies at the museum’s  separate pier, and guests can take a guided tour of the ship. It took part in the Cod Wars in the last century and went on numerous searches and rescue missions. The tugboat Magni, the first steel ship built in Iceland, is also at the museum’s pier.The museum is located in the building that used to be the Reykjavík Trawler Company’s freezing plant in Grandagardur,with marvellous nearness to the old fishing harbour and ocean.

 

ARTERIAL FOR COUNTRY AND CITY

An exhibition set up for Reykjavík Harbour’s 90th

anniversary. This is a special  experience where guests

step aboard the historic Gullfoss of 1915 and, from there,down onto a wooden pier surrounded by sea and the ocean’s biosphere. The idea is to re-create the atmosphereof the pier and the change occurring with the advent of harbour construction. 

 

 

FROM POVERTY TO ABUNDANCE

This shows Icelanders’ rowboat fishing over a thousand years, life in fishermen’s workdwellings and stockfish processingin former times. The exhibition describes the great changes occurring in Icelanders’ fishing around  1900. Growing out of this is the history of fishing and fishing ship management in the 20th century, with strong references to Reykjavík as a trawler town and the Reykjavík Trawler Company.  

 

 

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS

Various exhibitions will be set

up in the museum’s special

exhibition hall, for example,

photographs, paintings and visiting exhibitions from other museums. 

 

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